Materials
for a better Life

Expertise

Our scientific expertise

At the DWI, the working groups of currently six members of the Scientific Board combine their different areas of expertise under one roof.

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Mission

Interactive Materials

New materials are the key to the development of forward-looking technologies. In this context, we are facing a central challenge in modern materials research.

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News

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Doctoral anniversary: Reunion of former doctoral students at the DWI

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Project GXY: Development of bio-based high-performance fibers from collagen

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Kick-off of the Leibniz ScienceCampus ACTISONO in Aachen

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Raphael Wittkowski is the new physics professor at DWI

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''Best Young Researcher Talk'' award for Nabanita Hazra

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DWI Alumna Aman Ishaqat Receives Prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship

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The Institute

Perspektiven und Gestaltung

Working at the DWI

Find information on opportunities to work at the DWI.

Equal opportunity and diversity are embedded in the mission statement of the DWI and belong a priori to the self-image of the institute.

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Projects

The project work of the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials is interdisciplinary and includes several working groups. The majority of the projects are carried out with particular focus on the practical application.

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Interactive Materials

New materials are the key to the development of forward-looking technologies. In this context, we are facing a central challenge in modern materials research.

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About the Leibniz Joint Lab fiT

The Leibniz Joint Lab “fiT" (first in Translation) is dedicated to educate and guide researchers with basic research discoveries in the biomedical field through the required preclinical- and clinical product development phases.

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Current publications

  • Publication

    A Versatile and Robust System for Electrical Droplet Position Sensing in a Digital Microfluidic Platform

    J. Wagner, A. Schliep, Y. Lin, O. Fiukowski, R. Nebesnyi, A. Pich and U. Schnakenberg
    Sensors and Actuators A: Physical Vol. 394 116880 (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2025.116880
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    From Single Microgels to Dense Microgel Monolayers – Investigation by Atomic Force Microscopy

    S. Schog, M. F. Schulte, S. Bochenek, T. Kratzenberg and W. Richtering
    Soft Matter Vol. 21 (35) 6984-6994 (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SM00522A